Family of 5

Disney's Art of Animation Resort

Orlando 3.0

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Overview

This Disney Value Resort allows you to feel like a character in your favourite Disney and Disney•Pixar stories. In addition to Standard Rooms, Family Suites offer the room families need to spread out in comfort. With four playful courtyards and animation-inspired décor, Guests will be surrounded by magic like never before. The Resort hotel draws its inspiration from four classic Disney Animated films: Finding Nemo (Family Suites), Cars (Family Suites), The Lion King (Family Suites), and The Little Mermaid (Standard Rooms).

Check in

3 p.m.

Check out

11 a.m.

Rooms

864

Rooms

Standard Room (The Little Mermaid)
  • 1 king bed, or 2 double beds
  • Views of Courtyard, Pool or Parking Area
  • No more than 4 guests in the room
Standard Room (The Little Mermaid)
Featured amenities
Included in all rooms
  • A/C
  • Alarm clock
  • Crib (on request)
  • Iron/Ironing board
  • Safe
  • TV
  • Pack 'n Play Playard available
  • Fridges can be provided on a "request basis only" and will be based on need priority.

Family Suites (The Lion King/ Finding Nemo/Cars)
  • 1 queen bed, 1 double bed, and 1 sofa bed
  • Views of Courtyard, Pool or Parking Area
  • No more than 6 guests in the room
Family Suites (The Lion King/ Finding Nemo/Cars)
Featured amenities
Included in all rooms
  • A/C
  • Alarm clock
  • Crib (on request)
  • Iron/Ironing board
  • Safe
  • TV
  • Pack 'n Play Playard available
  • Fridges can be provided on a "request basis only" and will be based on need priority.

Amenities


Location

Address
1850 Century Drive, Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830, Orlando, Florida, United States of America
31 km from MCO airport

Reviews

TripAdvisor Traveler Rating

4.5 Excellent

  • Cleanliness 4.6
  • Location 4.3
  • Rooms 4.3
  • Service 4.4
  • Value 4.1
TripAdvisor users rated this property 4 out of 5

Surprisingly Great Stay

UTBlonde0427 (San Clemente, California) on Mar 16, 2025

This is the second time we’ve stayed at AoA, the last time being in 2015. This trip, we stayed in a Little Mermaid room for just two nights. I was pleasantly surprised by how much we enjoyed our stay. The ...room is definitely small. We are a family of 4- it was tight, but just fine for a short stay. I think a week for four people in these rooms would be harder, but as long as you keep your room clean and picked up, they surprisingly have plenty of storage in the closet, under the bed and in the dresser. The biggest negative on the mermaid rooms is how far they are from basically everything. It’s a long walk out there after a long day at the parks. We were in building 9 and it was quiet, and the beds were comfortable. We are big fans of Ariel, so we really enjoyed the over the top theming, and thought it was a lot of fun. The room was very clean, we actually like the giant food court- although the floors were filthy by the evening so Disney could definitely do better in that department, the pools looked like fun, and the staff was all very friendly. The only other negative is the skyliner. It took us an hour door to door to get back to the resort from Epcot. We waited to get on the skyliner at Epcot, then we had to transfer at Caribbean Beach, then we had to wait at CB to board again to get on the line which took us to AoA. An hour travel time to get from Epcot to our hotel is ridiculous…. I miss the busses for sure. Our bus rides to Magic Kingdom and back took less than 15 minutes- much more efficient and quick. We decided if we stay here again, we’ll rent a car and just drive to Epcot and DHS to avoid the skyliner. We’ve never stayed at another value resort, but AoA felt more upscale than what I imagine the all stars are, and even though our other trips have all been deluxe stays, we didn’t find ourselves wishing we were at the GF or Poly. Not at what they’re charging for those resorts these days. I think we’d upgrade to a Nemo suite next trip- the Nemo buildings are so much closer and much more spacious.

TripAdvisor users rated this property 2 out of 5

My daughter’s 7th birthday experience and 1st time to Disney.

Keidra S on Feb 25, 2025

For the amount of money you’re spending it would be reasonable to expect a clean, pleasant room and hallway. Upon entering the hotel (The Lion king suites) the hallways stunk like years of trash build up. ...I held my breath every time we’d leave and come bk. Also the fixtures in my room were extremely dusty and my daughter ended up having an asthma attack.

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